BUCKFIELD — Residents overwhelmingly supported all budget articles and denied the Hells Angels from receiving land and money from the John Jordan estate during Tuesday’s town meeting.

Voters also showed their displeasure with the Regional School Unit 10 budget, with 209 opposing the $43 million budget and 107 voting in favor. RSU 10 includes the towns of Rumford, Mexico, Hanover, Roxbury, Buckfield, Sumner and Hartford.

Buckfield holds its town meeting by secret ballot at the polls. Residents voted in favor of all 36 articles on the warrant. The RSU 10 question was a separate ballot.

Six articles asked voters to accept the property at 150 Depot St. and funds for scholarships from the estate of James Jordan. If residents voted to not accept the gifts, the land would have been given to the nearest chapter of the Hells Angels.

Jordan, a lifelong resident of Buckfield, had no connection to the motorcycle group, and was not a motorcycle rider, his friend Roland Frechette of Hebron said in April. Calling it a bad joke, Frechette said it was a way to make sure residents accepted the gifts.

Depot Street is part of Route 117, heading out of town toward Paris.

Jordan died at his home March 16, 2024, at age 80. According to his obituary, he graduated from Buckfield High School and worked at Tilton’s Market. He then became a traveling salesman for Cornwall’s Manufacturing and later drove trucks of antiques from Maine to Texas. He retired as a manager at International Paper.

The first article in the six-question series asks voters to accept the gift of the residence at 150 Depot St. and a 2-acre parcel surrounding the structure “for the purpose of providing a location for the training and support for the town’s rescue unit.”

It states, “non-acceptance of this gift would result in the property being devised to the nearest chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Group of North America along with the residuary of the estate,” which is approximately $850,000.

The vote on the first question passed with 88% of the voters in favor, or a 274-37 margin.

The other questions dealt with an additional land gift to the town for recreational activities, setting up of three scholarships and funding an annual trip for the town’s senior citizens.

According to Town Manager Cameron Hinkley, an attorney for James Jordan’s estate and the town approved the wording of the articles.

All six questions passed with at least 256 affirmative votes.

Voters also supported selling or leasing the Old Church on the Hill at 77 High St. by a 233-58 margin.

It was built as a Universalist church between 1831 and 1832. Featured prominently on the town’s seal, the building was included on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The church requires substantial structural and cosmetic renovations.

Voters were less certain about a new cost recovery ordinance that would allow the town to recoup Fire Department expenses from nonresidents for certain incidents. That passed by a 185-112 margin.

Voters supported the $3.1 million budget, which is 9.9% higher than the current budget.

Selectmen Azalea Cormier and Sandra Fickett won reelection to the Select Board, running unopposed. Allison Long defeated Jade Dlugokinski for a seat on the RSU 10 board, 188-102.